Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had reiterated not to barter environment for economic growth at a national online meeting on environmental protection held on Aug 24 after the country’s most serious environmental incident caused by Taiwan-...
Vietnam’s scientists have spotted a new group of critically endangered primates, a population of Delacour’s langurs, marking it as the world’s second largest population so far. Scientists from Fauna & Flora International (FFI) Vietnam saw a...
Vietnam’s Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control has reported that typhoon Dianmu left seven deaths, eight injured, and two missing when the storm flooded the northern region last weekend. The calamities were summed up...
The Vietnamese government announced at a conference with the participation of domestic and foreign scientists, universities scholars, and state officials that the water in sea off coastline in four central provinces is now safe after Taiwan-invested...
A land slide occurred at a gold mining quarry in Vietnam’s northern province of Lao Cai has killed at least seven people, local media reported. The accident happened last week, brought about by tropical storm Dianmu, local authorities said....
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has agreed to grant work permits to foreign teachers, which allows them to teach in the public schools, state media reported. Accordingly, foreign teachers must have at least a degree in pedagogy or equivalent one, a...
Head Nguyen Thi Kim Phung of the Higher Education Department under Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training has recently spoken on the public concern over many universities’ failure to take on enough students after their first enrollment round...
Vice President of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations Don Tuan Phong has suggested US activists call on the US Government to pay more heed to decontaminating “environmental hot spots” in Vietnam and supporting local Agent Orange (AO)/...
“Long Thanh Wants to Smile”, a German documentary on dioxin victims in Vietnam, has been nominated for this year Emmy Awards in the Current Affairs and News category. Made by Philipp Abresch, Singapore bureau chief of German broadcaster ARD, the 28-...
Hanoi is attempting to reduce the rate of poverty by 1.3%, equivalent to 27,000 poor households, in 2016, with preferential policies. More than 4,900 poor and near-poor households received preferential loans from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policy...
